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科技
Technology
Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.
威望迪将成为互联网时代为数不多的顶级通讯集团之一。我们的客户遍布全球，通过各种技术提供服务。
What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.
我们正在做的是利用宽带互联网，以比电话线更高的语音质量，向任何人提供基本上不受限制的免费通话。
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
如果你把垃圾放进电脑，除了垃圾什么也出不来。但是这些垃圾经过了一台非常昂贵的机器，不知何故变得高尚起来，没有人敢批评它。
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
上帝与机器、科学医学和普遍的幸福并不相容。你必须做出选择。我们的文明选择了机械、医学和幸福。
Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
没有丈夫，女性必须专注于赚更多的钱。他们工作时间更长，愿意搬家，更有可能选择科技等收入更高的领域。
If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.
如果你的工作是在手机上完成的，那么你当然可以建立某种无线系统。如果你的工作涉及阅读或撰写报告，那么这也可以在室外完成。
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
我认为人类在工业革命初期犯了一个很大的错误，我们为机械的东西跃跃欲试，人们需要用他们的手去感受创造性。
I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.
我不讨厌技术，我不讨厌黑客，因为这就是它所带来的，没有这些黑客，我们就无法解决我们需要解决的问题，尤其是安全问题。
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
神秘消失在技术原理的确定性中。所以真正的恐惧，真正的对生命的侵犯来自于对科技幸福的追求。
Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
有人给了我这个鼓机，有人让我为一个项目编写程序。我真的很喜欢编程，也对鼓机很感兴趣。
Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.
此外，“智能灌溉月”旨在表彰灌溉技术和实践的进步，这些技术和实践不仅可以生产更多的优质作物，还可以用更少的水生产更高质量的作物。
The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world.
移动市场正在爆炸式增长，对于像我们这样的媒体公司来说，为全球数十亿手机用户创建一个真正的内容目的地是非常合理的。
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The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
我们开发谷歌的环境，我们能够开发搜索引擎的原因，是网络是如此的开放。一旦你制定了太多的规则，就会扼杀创新。
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
人们今天比以往活得更长。他们过着更快乐的生活，拥有更多的知识和信息。所有这些都是通信技术的结果。有什么不好的?
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
人类创造的所有最伟大的技术发明——飞机、汽车、电脑——很少提到他的智力，但却充分说明了他的懒惰。
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
技术给了我们力量，但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技，我们可以在世界各地即时交流，但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
发明的进步赋予了人类一个世纪前最大胆的想象所无法想象的力量。
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
对于一项成功的技术，现实必须凌驾于公共关系之上，因为自然是不会被愚弄的。